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I see Rust as heavily influenced by ML, perhaps even descended from it loosely, just with C family syntax. This seems to be a commonly expressed view? Rust has everything ML has, pretty much. Rust's concept of ownership/RAII was first implemented in an experimental ML variant, one that didn't need garbage collection. (The first version of Rust was implemented in Ocaml, perhaps not coincidentally.) And of course, ML and Haskell are close cousins, if not siblings.